Change: Funds For Hamas

Update: Iran sentences dual citizenship journalist Roxana Saberi to eight years for spying. Moe Lane wants to see a strong response from Obama. I suppose they could use red highlights on the teleprompter for his speech. That's about as fiery a response as I would expect.

While the US government was busy warning police departments about the threat from Right-wing extremists, including veterans, at home, Obama is looking to change a policy that could ultimately allow aid to flow to Hamas. In essence, they could form a technocratic level of government above Hamas and Fatah in a unity government. That, while Hamas continues to marginalize and even kill Fatah elements in the Middle-east. Add in the notorious element of corruption and subterfuge by Hamas and US State Department incompetence and I think it's fair to say the result would likely be US tax dollars flowing to a terrorist group in the Middle-east. To believe anything else strikes me as incredibly naive.

But then that seems to sum up the foreign policy of the grinner in chief as he continues touring the world.

The administration is looking for a way to keep aid flowing if the Palestinians form a government that includes elements of Hamas, the militant anti-Israel group that controls Gaza.

Obama wants to alter language in the fiscal 2009 catchall spending law (PL 111-8) that makes the State Department worry about the possibility of a cutoff of aid to the Palestinian government should Hamas join the more moderate Fatah party in a power-sharing arrangement.

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[Mike Bravo]

[Federal Register: February 4, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 22)]
[Presidential Documents]
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Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27,
2009

Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs
Related To Gaza

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States, including section
2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of
1962 (the ``Act''), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I
hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the
Act, that it is important to the national interest to
furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to
exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency
Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose
of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration
needs, including by contributions to international,
governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and
payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department
of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian
refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.

You are authorized and directed to publish this
memorandum in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, January 27, 2009

[FR Doc. E9-2488
Filed 2-3-09; 8:45 am]
Billing code 4710-10-P

[Terrence]

Saint Obama my very well call upon the United Nations to pass a resolution condemning Iran in the strongest words possible. That'll show Iran that Saint Obama means business.

But, then, he may just vote "present".

[Terrence]

oops, "my" s/b "may"

[WBestPresisdentEver]

The man is not fit to be President. Unreal.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/americas_november_revolution.html